Posted on 02/07/2008 5:53:12 PM PST by Bruce 22-250
Issue: Having been slapped down by the U. S. Supreme Courts recent decision that the words navigable waters in the Clean Water Act limited federal agencies to regulation of navigable waters only. Democrats and liberal Republicans in Congress are striking back.
They are attempting to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (HR2421 and S1870) that would amend the 1972 Clean Water Act and replace the words navigable waters with waters of the United States. Further, it defines "waters of the United States" with such breathtaking scope that federal agencies would be required to regulate use of every square inch of the U.S., both public and private.
(Excerpt) Read more at landrights.org ...
I don’t doubt that at all. I haven’t trusted EnviroWackos or Government for years. ;)
IIRC, the definition of "navigable" has already been adjudicated as anything over 12 DWT.
Your talking under Federal law 12 DWT. The Link Marsh2 had was about how CA law. I;m no lawyer nor did I sleep in Holiday Express last night. :-)
If this new Clean Water act become law we are in serious trouble.
Love your tag line. :-) Does your Dad post or just read?
Wuz it frozen or thawed the day that they were there?
My “real” Dad just reads once in a while if I ping him to something. Grace’s Dad (who I was pinging) and I were debating the damage EnviroWacko groups do to our freedoms on another thread, so I thought this would be of interest him. ;)
It was during the brief summer and they had pictures of riverbank erosion. This is a serious problem for those who have built a subdivision on a gravel bar. You too can live on a gravel bar.
Here in central California, we have new subdivisions being built at 9 feet above sea level, 55 miles from the ocean, in the San Joaquin delta, ‘protected’ by peat soil berms.
(it’s OK you know, since we have a flood insurance program)
They are attempting to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (HR2421 and S1870) that would amend the 1972 Clean Water Act and replace the words "navigable waters" with "waters of the United States." Further, it defines "waters of the United States" with such breathtaking scope that federal agencies would be required to regulate use of every square inch of the U.S., both public and private.Now, see, I'm against that.
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